Japanese Men Demand Equality, Own Carriage
According to Japan Probe, men in Japan are sick and tired of being falsely accused of groping women and extorted (and numerous examples of this have occurred for years, in spite of the creation of the women-only carriage some time ago).
A number of men have requested that a men-only carriage be created by various train companies, but judging from Japan Probe’s report, the outlook isn’t too good.
“We get a lot of requests for them and take note of these, but we have no plans regarding carriages exclusively for men at this time,” a spokesman for the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) says.
Keio Electric Railway Co., which back in 2000 became Japan’s first railroad to introduce women’s only carriages, also has no current arrangements in place to correct the gender imbalance on its routes.
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